Like James Bond--but without the high-tech gadgets--Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is one of those rare beings who can avert any crisis without mussing a hair. (The rest of us should be so lucky.) In the pilot alone, the secret agent dismantles a missile using a paper clip and fashions a rocket thruster out of a pistol. Is there anything MacGyver can't do? As the first season of ABC's long-running adventure series proves, the answer is a resounding no. MacGyver's secret: the everyday items he "finds along the way," like matches or gum wrappers, and the ingenuity to put them to a myriad of uses (a background in physics and chemistry doesn't hurt). Unlike Alias' Sidney Bristow, he isn't a multi-linguist, a martial artist, or a master of disguises. Wits are MacGyver's weapon of choice.
Cast and Characters
Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver
Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton
Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton (1987-1992)
Elyssa Davalos as Nikki Carpenter (1987-1988)
Broadcast History First Telecast: September 29, 1985 Last Telecast: May 21, 1992 Number of Episodes: 139
Number of Seasons: 7
Original Network: ABC
September 1985- January 1986, ABC, Sunday 8:00-9:00pm
January 1986- July 1986, ABC, Wednesday 8:00-9:00pm
August 1986, ABC, Wednesday 9:00-10:00pm
September 1986- May 1987, ABC, Monday 8:00-9:00pm
June 1987- September 1987, ABC, Wednesday 9:00-10:00pm
September 1987- May 1988, ABC, Monday 8:00-9:00pm
June 1988- September 1988, ABC, Sunday 8:00-9:00pm
October 1988- August 1989, ABC, Monday 8:00-9:00pm
August 1989- September 1989, ABC, Sunday 8:00-9:00pm
September 1989- December 1991, ABC, Monday 8:00-9:00pm
Like James Bond--but without the high-tech gadgets--Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is one of those rare beings who can avert any crisis without mussing a hair. (The rest of us should be so lucky.) In the pilot alone, the secret agent dismantles a missile using a paper clip and fashions a rocket thruster out of a pistol. Is there anything MacGyver can't do? As the first season of ABC's long-running adventure series proves, the answer is a resounding no. MacGyver's secret: the everyday items he "finds along the way," like matches or gum wrappers, and the ingenuity to put them to a myriad of uses (a background in physics and chemistry doesn't hurt). Unlike Alias' Sidney Bristow, he isn't a multi-linguist, a martial artist, or a master of disguises. Wits are MacGyver's weapon of choice.
